Bitkraft invests in Gam3Girl Ventures to help Web2 devs move to Web3
Web3 incubation fund Gam3Girl Ventures recently announced an investment from Bitkraft Ventures, which will go towards Gam3Girl’s mission of helping Web2 developers transition to...
PiP World acquires high-grossing stock simulator game StockRise
PiP World, a social gaming and edtech company, has acquired Roblox’s highest-grossing stock simulator game, StockRise. StockRise has seven million plays and Dubai-based PiP...
Cartridge raises $7.5M in funding for onchain game development
Cartridge, an infrastructure provider for onchain games and autonomous worlds, announced today that it has raised $7.5M in its Series A funding round. Bitkraft...
Amber acquires Madbricks game studio in Colombia
Amber, a video game development agency, has acquired the Colombian game studio Madbricks. This acquisition marks the vanguard of Amber’s new initiative to foster...
Mountaintop’s Spectre Divide brings clever gameplay to PvP multiplayer shooter
Nate Mitchell scored a nice startup victory as a cofounder of Oculus. And now he’s coming out with another startup, Mountaintop, which showed off...
Inworld AI adds localization for Mandarin, Japanese and Korean
Inworld AI, a gaming-focused generative AI startup, has added multilingual support for Mandarin (simplified Chinese), Japanese, and Korean. These tools will allow creators to...
Game job layoff forecast is getting better, with job cuts slowing dramatically in July
In a rare bit of positive news, Amir Satvat, a jobs quant, said he sees an improved outlook when it comes to layoffs in...
Dotplay raises $1M for web-based mobile game tech platform
Dotplay has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to further develop its web-based mobile game technology platform. This will allow mobile developers to bypass...
Game M&A was up in Q2 while private game investments focus on early stage | Drake Star
Gaming acquisitions and public market deals continued to gain momentum in second quarter of 2024 as the market gradually gets better, according to Drake...
How skill matters in Call of Duty multiplayer matchmaking | The DeanBeat
Activision has been taking deep dives into its matchmaking process for Call of Duty multiplayer in an effort to enable players to understand why...